Fritz Mueller is one of
the most innovative musicians of the German Rock Scene. Born 1945 as
Eberhard Kranemann in Germany he studied classical double bass at the
Dortmund Conservatory, playing Bach / Mozart / Telemann - orchestra
music and with Jazz bands. Then he went to Duesseldorf to study painting
at the Arts Academy. Besides experimenting with colours and painting
abstract pictures he experimented with sounds, at first on cello,
clarinet, tenorsaxophone, electric guitar, hawaii guitar, later with
electronic instruments.
In 1967, with other art students he founded the experimental music group
PISSOFF. Critical about the social development in Germany and the
conservative rollback round about the band demolished the established
rules of music. In their concerts they played free improvised music for
three hours non-stop, everyone playing as loud as possible - without
harmony, avoiding correct pitch, defined structures and norms – and
people liked it.

Pure freedom. Chaos.
Acoustic terror. JOSEPH BEUYS, professor at the Duesseldorf art academy,
was so enthusiastic that he initiated a performance with PISSOFF in
Duesseldorf’s famous Creamcheese Club, Frank Zappa’s favourite club in
Germany. At this time Florian Schneider-Esleben heard the sound of the
group and joined the band, becoming a friend of Eberhard Kranemann’s.
The two curious musicians kept on experimenting, which was the beginnig
of KRAFTWERK. After four years of collaboration he began to work with
Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother in the band NEU!. Later on he invented
for himself the stage personality FRITZ MUELLER, working as a solo
artist in concerts and recording at the Conny Plank studio in Wolperath.
He formed the FRITZ MUELLER BAND, did concert tours, more studio work,
and radio and television appearencies. Now, 30 years later the

FRITZ MUELLER ROCK LP of
1977, co-produced by Conny Plank, by now, is one of the most important
documents of the GERMAN ROCK HISTORY, in the meantime labeled PSYCH
HEAVY KRAUTROCK or even KRAUTROCK KEY BAND.